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MUMBAI: Tesla is potentially seeking a local partner to establish its operations in India. The American electric vehicle giant is considering the prospect of a joint venture with Reliance to construct a manufacturing facility within the country, The Hindu Businessline reported on April 9. Reportedly, Tesla has earmarked $2 billion for its forthcoming endeavours in India and has been scouting various locations, including Gujarat and Maharashtra, as potential sites for the plant. Maharashtra is purportedly emerging as the favoured choice, the report claimed. During an X (formerly Twitter) Spaces session alongside Nicolai Tangen, CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management, Elon…

MUMBAI: Apple assembled USD 14 billion worth of iPhones in India last financial year, doubling production in the country in what could be seen as a diversification in manufacturing beyond China, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. The Bloomberg news report quoted people familiar with the matter, declining to be named as the information isn’t public, saying that the US tech giant now makes as much as 14 per cent or about one in seven of its devices from India. The ramp-up in production suggests Apple is accelerating efforts to cut its longstanding reliance on China as geopolitical tensions mount, as per…

CHENNAI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is taking the Bharatiya Janata Party’s election campaign in Tamil Nadu a notch higher with his third public meeting in the state’s Kongu region, on Wednesday, April 10. PM Modi addressed a public meeting in Coimbatore’s Vellore and will hold another in the district’s Mettupalayam area later in the day, ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. He will later travel to Maharashtra, where he will address a public meeting at Ramtek constituency in Nagpur. PM MODI IN COIMBATORE The Prime Minister is addressing rallies in Coimbatore to support NDA candidates, including BJP state president K…

NEW DELHI: US Ambassador Eric Garcetti was all praise for India’s global prospects on Tuesday, heralding the country as the future. His remarks about the world’s most populous nation came during an event in the national capital. “…If you want to see the future, come to India. If you want to feel the future, come to India. If you want to work in the future, come to India. I have the great privilege of being able to do that every single day as the leader of the US Mission,” Ambassador Garcetti during an event at IPE Global, titled “Impact &…

Trouble for Air India Ltd. is mounting with aircraft technicians planning a strike later this month after its pilots voiced concerns last week about being overworked and underpaid. Technicians at AI Engineering Services Ltd. – a state-run maintenance, repair and overhaul firm and an erstwhile Air India unit – will strike on April 23 due to various issues affecting their “well-being” and “professional growth,” All India Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Union wrote in a letter dated April 8 to the chief executive officer. A representative for Air India said the situation is being monitored closely. The unrest among aviation workers risks…

New Delhi: It is a person’s choice to avail health services under Ayush or allopathic medicine, and denigration of any system should be discouraged, the Centre has told the Supreme Court in its reply to the case of the misleading advertisement against Patanjali Ayurved and its founders, Yoga guru Ramdev and his aide Balkrishna. This comes after the Supreme Court pulled up the Patanjali founders and said the company’s advertisements are in the “teeth of law”. The court came down heavily on Ramdev and Balkrishna for not filing proper affidavits. It also refused to accept an apology filed by Patanjali…

New Delhi: An official investigation into the allegations of foreign meddling in Canadian elections has concluded that India didn’t try to interfere in Canadian politics. A panel of senior Canadian officials monitoring the 2021 elections in the country were not informed of any attempt by India to influence national polls, the probe found. “I do not believe during the 2021 election that we saw evidence of the Government of India using those tools in the campaign,” a poll official told the probe panel. However, the Canadian intelligence agency found that China did interfere in Canada’s last two elections, according to…